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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 19, 26 February 1892, Page 15

Hiß physicians now give M. Gounod no hope of recovery from his impending blindness. By the death of the ex-Emperor of Brazil, Qaeen Victoria becomes the senior monarch of the world in point of length of reign. She has now ruled for over fifty-fonr years, while Dona Pedro, up to his disposition, had occupied the throne for nearly fifty-nine years, but deing the first nine years he was a minor, and a Regency governed. I he present King of Denmark is the only monarch older than the Queen, he being seventy-three years of age, one year her senior,